Smith College: Opening and Early History

William Allan Neilson. Smith College: The
First Seventy Years (unpublished typescript), ca. 1946

Scope and Content Note

An unpublished typed manuscript of a history of Smith College from its
founding in 1875 to 1945, originally undertaken by Harry Norman Gardiner
(1855-1927), Professor of Philosophy at Smith College. Sometime after
Gardiner's death, the work of finishing the history was taken over by William
Allan Neilson, who was President of Smith College from 1917 to 1939.
The manuscript was substantially finished by the time Neilson died in 1946.